And you mean to read all the time you are here, Miss Vavasor ?" "I mean to walk about the priory ruins sometimes." "Then you must go by moonlight, and I'll go with you.

Only isn't it rather late in the year for that ?" "I should think it is,--for you, Mr Palliser." Then the Duke spoke to her again, and she found that she got on very well during dinner.

But she could not but feel angry with herself in that she had any fear on the subject;--and yet she could not divest herself of that fear.

She acknowledged to herself that she was conscious of a certain inferiority to Lady Glencora and to Mr Jeffrey Palliser, which almost made her unhappy.

As regarded the Duke on the other side of her, she had no such feeling.